| Event: | Men's 800 metre freestyle |
| Competition: | 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships |
| Venue: | Yokohama International Swimming Pool |
| Dates: | August 25, 2002 (heats &<br>finals) |
| Competitors: | 9 |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Win Value: | 7:44.78 |
| Gold: | Grant Hackett |
| Goldnoc: | AUS |
| Silver: | Larsen Jensen |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Chris Thompson |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1997 |
| Next: | 2006 |
The men's 800 metre freestyle competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 25 at the Yokohama International Swimming Pool.[1] [2] The last champion was Grant Hackett of Australia, in 1997. This event was not held in 1999.[3]
This event was a timed-final where each swimmer swam just once.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:
| World record | 7:39.16 | Fukuoka, Japan | July 24, 2001 | ||
| Pan Pacific Championships record | 7:50.28 | Atlanta, United States | August 10, 1995 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | Grant Hackett | 7:44.78 | CR | |||
| 2 | 2 | Larsen Jensen | 7:52.05 | ||||
| 2 | 4 | Chris Thompson | 7:56.69 | ||||
| 4 | 2 | 7 | Craig Stevens | 7:56.86 | |||
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Shunichi Fujita | 8:01.97 | |||
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Takeshi Matsuda | 8:11.22 | |||
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Kurtis MacGillivary | 8:12.27 | |||
| 8 | 1 | 4 | Bruno Bonfim | 8:27.10 | |||
| 9 | 2 | 8 | Kwok Leung Chung | 8:36.77 |